Imagine that you are a travel agent. A customer comes in asking about flights from London Heathrow to Rio de Janeiro on 6 June. Solving this problem, you will probably agree, is not too tricky: simply obtain a list of airlines flying out of Heathrow on that day, check departure and arrival times, prices and availability, look at stopovers and other details and advise the customer accordingly. Job done.

Tesora's plan is to have MongoDB be manageable under Trove as a first-class citizen, allowing instances of both databases to run side by side within OpenStack. As with MySQL, MongoDB is hardly the only NoSQL solution of its kind out there; CouchDB, Riak, and Couchbase all come to mind. But it's next to impossible to go wrong by starting there, given MongoDB's broad adoption as compared to its competitors, not to mention the burgeoning demand for MongoDB expertise.

GoGrid launched and is sponsoring OpenOrchestration.org, a repository for on-demand blueprints to simplify technology rollouts in the cloud, multiple clouds, or on-premise. The new community site fights back against what GoGrid believes is the major threat going forward: commodity clouds.
“The Mission of OpenOrchestration.Org is to facilitate and foster orchestration,” GoGrid CEO John Keagy said. “GoGrid is launching and sponsoring the site because orchestrated solutions are a necessary evolution of the marketplace in the face of dominance by one or two large commodity cloud services.

Business WireKirk Bowman Joins Couchbase Inc. Board of Directors as First Independent Director

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced Kirk Bowman has joined its Board of Directors. Bowman, the company’s first independent board member, has extensive experience developing, scaling and managing global sales and business development organizations for leading technology companies. His background in Big Data and databases make him an ideal advisor to foster Couchbase’s continued growth and momentum.

MarketWiredGoGrid Expands Open Data Services Ecosystem With New Partnerships to Offer Simple and Rapid Deployment of Big Data Technologies

GoGrid, the leader in Open Data Services (ODS), today announced new partnerships with key Big Data technology providers -- Clustrix and Couchbase -- to provide companies with the fastest and easiest way to evaluate and run their applications in the only cloud purpose-built for Big Data. The new partnerships continue to expand the ODS ecosystem GoGrid has built with its initial partnerships with Basho, DataStax, Hortonworks, and MongoDB.

Service RocketCouchbase Launched a Learning Management System in 19 days

Peter Childers joined Couchbase in January 2014 to lead the new Couchbase Learning Services group. His main goal was to build and grow a profitable enterprise software training business that improves customer adoption and helps Couchbase scale with excellent customer service. He had done this before. Over a seven year period, Pete grew Red Hat’s training and certification program into the world’s largest Linux training business, grossing $60 million per year in revenue. To put Couchbase on a similar track, would require similar skills and strategy.

The Big Data space is heating up – to the point that many pundits already see it as the over-hyped heir to "cloud." The hype may be a bit much, but Big Data is already living up to its potential, transforming entire business lines, such as marketing, pharmaceutical research, and cyber-security.
While the space is still fairly new, IDC, for one, sees big things ahead. The research firm predicts that the market for Big Data technologies will reach $32.4 billion by 2017, or about six times the growth rate of the overall information and communication technology market.

DiginomicaViber migrates from MongoDB to Couchbase and halves number of AWS servers

Viber also shows no signs of slowing down. It is currently adding 1 million users to its service every single day and it expects that next year it will need three our four times the infrastructure capacity than it currently has today, which is forcing the company to think about its database requirements in the near future. Although only a few years old, Viber is currently migrating to its third generation database architecture – where it is moving from MongoDB to a NoSQL competitor, Couchbase.

Information Age Couchbase Takes on NoSQL skills gap with new training programme

NoSQL database provider Couchbase has announced a new training programme to address the growing need to develop and expand the NoSQL talent pool. As part of the programme, Couchbase will offer classroom-based courses that will provide multi-day, instructor-led, hands-on training in core NoSQL skills.

The company is under pressure in its three main businesses, said Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS AG in San Francisco who recommends buying the stock. Microsoft Corp. has gained ground in database software, along with newer companies such as MongoDB Inc. and Couchbase Inc. that are chipping away at more established providers. Other customers are leaving Oracle because they’re putting data in the cloud with vendors like Amazon.com Inc.

Today Silicon Valley-based KuroBase, Inc., the leading provider of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions for Couchbase, announced it has released the first complete Heroku add-on for Couchbase. KuroBase has also released a set of developer tools including Heroku build-packs and New Relic instrumentation.

NoSQL is increasingly being considered a viable alternative to relational databases, especially for Big Data applications, as more enterprises recognize that operating at scale is better achieved on clusters of standard, commodity servers.

It's all about winning, Weiderhold says. "Those are big deals for us. That's what we're winning," he said. "We're winning those strategic evaluations. We're doing these big deployments and getting big deals as a result of winning these and that's why we're growing so much faster than MongoDB or Datastax, because we're winning them."

"If they're going to put a lot of resources behind CouchDB, that's a direct, competitive threat to their relationship with MongoDB," Wiederhold told InformationWeek. "They're buying a very small company that has struggled to keep up, from a NoSQL database technology perspective, with leaders like MongoDB, DataStax, and Couchbase."

This growth meant that the old system was not able to keep up. Mr Ish-Shalom explained that while MongoDB performed well when dealing with the tens of thousands of operations per second the firm was initially dealing with, its performance began to drop off as this became hundreds of thousands per second.

ComputingViber explains why it ditched MongoDB and Redis in favour of Couchbase

After three years of this breakneck growth Viber started to find that their bespoke Mongo / Redis combination couldn't keep up. While MongoDB was fine for the tens of thousands of operations per second that the firm was undertaking in its earlier days, as the number crept into the hundreds of thousands the performance began to drop off. There was also a scalability problem as the numbers of application servers, each connected to a MongoDB cluster, grew.